Necktie holder



June 4, 1935. H, OHN 2,003,740

NECKTI E HOLDER Filed July l4, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 June 4,1935. HCOHN 0 2,003,740

NECKTIE HOLDER Filed July 14, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 4, 1935 v 5, the necktie with some allowance of freedom. In

' relationtherefrom in certain positions and PATENT OFFICE NEOK'I'IE nomnn Herman Colin, Baltimore, Md.

Application July 14, 1934, Serial No. 135,255

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some instances, it may take the form, of a loop, at least in part flexible, adapted to embrace the necktie; in others',it may be embodied as an element freely overlying the'necktie having selectively determined positions by which its relation to tightness or looseness to thenecktie is determined.

Another object of the invention is to provide a necktie holder adapted to be suspended from the button hole and therefore radially oscillatable relative to said button hole. Still another object of the invention is to provide a necktie holder having a relatively rigid tie overlying portion adapted to automatically assume by gravity any position of inclination with respect to the necktie to enable it to fit the width of the necktie, this being accomplished by the principle of a shifting pivotal connection with the anchoring means'which will presently be described.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a necktie holder comprising a clampor other suitable shirt engaging element and having associated therewith a relatively rigidv bar'adapted to overlie the necktie in loose or slightly spaced capable of beingrotated on an axis substantially parallel to said barwas to bring the bar into closer or more remote relation .tothe necktie.

A stillfurther object of the invention is to provide a hingedly mounted bar as described in which enough friction is provided in the hinge to enable the bar to retain any position in which it may be set.

Still another object of the inventionis the pro vision of the hinged bar and a detent for determining definite positions of angular displacement of said bar.

Another object of the invention relates to a V necktie holder of the flexible bar type having shirt engaging means at the endsof the bar independently attachable to the shirt on opposite sides of the necktie at greater or less distances therefrom by means of which the amount of freedom allowed the tie may be varied and controlled.

Other objects of the invention will appear as p the following description. of several illustrative embodiments thereof proceeds.

In the drawings which accompany and form 5.

.acters of reference have been employed to designate identical parts:

Figure l is a front elevation of a necktie holder employing the principlesof the present invention in relation to a necktie;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of a necktie holder having a swinging bar overlying the necktie;

Figurev 3 is a similar view showing the shirt in section'and illustrating the modified form in which the bar is supported at one end;

. Figure 4 is a back. view partly in section showing still another modification of the invention;

Figure 51s a plan view, partly in section showing another form of the invention;

Figures 6, 7 and 8 are detail-views showing various detents; v

Figure 9 is a perspective view of a necktie holder suspended from a button hole;

Figure 10 is a perspective view showing a neck-- tie holder with a modified form of hook;

Figure 11 is a top plan view of a clamp-type necktie holder having a hinged necktie embracing safety pin;

Figure 12 is a modified form of the'invention shown in perspective, in which independent short attaching means are the opposite ends of the necktie restraining member;

Figure 13 is a perspective view of a modified form of the invention operating according to the principle of the shifting pivotal connection; and

Figure 14 is a front elevation of a necktie holder embodying the same principles as that shown in Figure 13, illustrating the manner in which it automatically inclines itself by gravity to fit any width of necktie.

Referring nowin detail to the several figures and first adverting to that form of the invention shown in Fig.2, the numeral i represents a clamp 4 whichas shown is of'bent wire construction, although this partlcular construction is not essential to the spirit of the invention. The clamp comprises a loop 2 and a tongue I, the latter normally resiliently contacting the lower side of 4 turned ends said ends being bent over at their extremities to form rings 8 which rings slip over the respective bearings 4 and 5. The end 5 is preferably formed at an angle to the rest of the tongue 3 and the ends 'I of the bar 6 have in them enough tension to press against the opposite portions of the clamp I and to retain the bar 6 against gravital displacement. Normally, as will be noted from Figure 2, the bar 6 is at right anglesto the plane of the loop 2 and freely embraces the necktie 9 being spaced therefrom as shown. By pressing the bar 6 down, against the friction which normally retains it in any position, it may be brought into closer relation to the necktie.

The manner in-which the tie is inserted is apparent from the broken line position shown in Figure 1. One of the ends I is spread until it is released from the end 5 of the tongue 3. The

necktie is then inserted and the end I released so that it will snap over the end 5 of said tongue.

In Figure 3, the clamping means for attaching the device to the shirt I is essentially similar in action to the clamping means illustrated in Figure 2, it being shown in spread position with the shirt in between its co-acting parts. The bar II which is functionally analogous to the bar 6 previously described, is secured hingedly at one end only of the clamp, it having an angular portion I2 terminating in a riveted pintle I3 which passes through a hole in the clampingmember. The other end of the bar I I is permanently open as indicated at I4, through which open end the necktie is slipped. Normally, as shown, the bar II is out of touch with the necktie. The bar II can however be depressed against the frictional pressure of its pivotal joint so as to be brought into close contact with the necktie.-

Figure 4 is a form of the invention which bears a striking-similarity to that shown in Figure 3, the chief difference being that the hinged bar I5 has a pintle I6 at its outer end adapted to snap into an aperture in the loop I'l. Due to the resilience of the bar I5, the end portion I2 may be pushed outwardly so as to release the pintle I6 from engagement with the loop I'I thereby affording an opening through which the necktie may be introduced. The bar I5 is movable from a position in which it is spaced from the necktie to one in which it closely engages the necktie.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary view of still another form of the invention, portions of the bar I8 being omitted. In this form of the invention the angular portions I9 of the bar have a ball at each end, said balls being provided with axially alining bores. The looped end I9 of the clamp member I is provided with a trunnion and a similar trunnion 2I is provided at the opposite end of the tongue. The knobbed ends of the bar snap over these trunnions and since the bar is resilient, one

.pf these connections may be opened to give access to the necktie.

It may be desirable to provide the hinged bar with a detent for positively holding it either in its extended position, horizontally with respect to the face of the necktie or in its downward position in which it contacts the necktie. Such a de tent is illustrated in Figures 6, 7 and 8. The necktie restraining bar 22 has anangular end 23 bent over to form a hinged pintle 24 rotatable in a bore 25 formed between the adjacent wires 26 and 21 of the clamp; These wires being resilient tend to press together. The pintle 24 is formed with a flattened portion 28 acting as a cam. In the position shown in Figure '7, the cam 28 is out of contact with the resilient sides of the bore 25 and holds the bar in its extended position. When the bar is moved down to the position shown in Figure 8, the cam tends to spread the sides of the bore 25 apart, the endsof the cam being thus frictionally clamped between the sides of said,

bore holding the bar 22 positively in its downward position.

Figure 9 shows a modified form of the invention in which a spreader 29 is provided having bifurcated arms 30 and 3I unitary at their point of convergence 'with a hook 32 adapted to be suspended from the button hole 33 of a shirt. The outer ends of the spreader 29 are bent to form eyes 34 receiving the ends of the flexible loop of the necktie overlying element 35. In addition to the flexibility of action of the tie holder provided by the element 35, the holder is freely oscillatable about its point of engagement with the button hole.

Figure 10 shows a slight modification of that form of the invention shown in Figure 9 in which the spreader 36 is formed of two wires united in the hook portion in any suitable manner and having divergent ends 31 and 38 which prevents the accidental dislodgment of the necktie holderfrom the button hole.

Figure 11 shows a form of the invention in which the clamp member 39 may be of conventional construction and having a safety pin 40 hingedly secured thereto by means such as the sleeves H. the safety pin with suiiicient friction either to hold it in extended or downward position, or, for that matter, at any intermediate position. The safety pin opens by pressing upon the tongue 42, to admit the necktie.

In Figure 12 a form of the invention is shown in which the catenary of the flexible member 43 may be varied in order to increase or decrease the freedom of the necktie. At each end of the flexible member is a shirt engaging element 44 of conventional construction comprising a metallic element formed in an acute angle which is adapted to frictionally engage and hold a fold of the shirt. By arranging the elements 44 closer together or farther apart on'opposite sides of the necktie the depth of the bight of the flexible member 43 may be varied and controlled.

That form of the invention shown in Figure 13, is of particular advantage in providing a necktie holder which adapts itself to the width of the tie regardless of how high on the tie it may be placed or to ties of different widths. It consists primarily of a short engaging member which in the present exemplary embodiment is a hook 45. The invention insofar as this form of the invention is concerned, is not confined to a hook. A flexible element or chain 46 passes freely through a loop 41 in the hook andat its ends is connected to a rigid bar 48, a portion at least of which overlies the necktie. In Figure 13 the bar is extended as at 49 in unbalancing relation to the device. Therefore, when the hook 45 is slipped into a button hole and the necktie is introduced behind the bar 49, the unbalanced weight of the bar will cause the chain or flexible member 46 to run through the loop 41 until the end of the bar 49 contacts with the edge of the necktie. The narrower the tie, the greater will be the inclination assumed by the bar 49 when in its position of repose, but in all instances it will be stopped only when the end 50 contacts with the necktie, thus producing an automatic self-adjusting tie holder.

Figure 14' illustrates stillanother form of the invention showing the shifting pivotal connecion between the hook 5| and the flexible element Said sleeves preferably bear against or chain 52. In this form of the invention, the tie holder is a closed loop, the front part of which is constituted by a rigid bar 53 having angularly turned ends 54 to which the ends of a chain 52 are connected.

Due tothe freedom of movement of the chain relative to the hook the bar will gradually gravitate to the position atwhich its opposite ends contact the lateral edges of the necktie; It is not essential that any especial provision be made to unbalance the weight of the bar ,for it is practically impossible to arrange the shifting member so that it is exactly balanced and regardless of how small may be the 'unbalanced factor of weight, the vibration of the body in walking will within a step or two cause the tie holder to assume its correct position' with respect to the edges of the necktie.

While I have in the above description disclosed.

what I believe to be preferred and practical embodiments of my invention, it will be understood that the details of construction as shown and described are merely by way of example, and not to be construed as limiting the scope of the inven-' ber, leaving the latter free to tilt, means for attaching the said looped member to a shirt, and connecting means between said attaching means and said looped member for holding said member unstably balanced.

2. Necktie holder comprising a rigid looped member defining within its bounds a tie-receiving space, and having its front and back portions .separated a distance greater than the thickness of the tie which it is designed to receive so that the tie when within said looped member is unrestricted thicknesswise by said looped member, leaving the latter free to tilt, means for attaching said looped member to a shirt, and connecting means between said attaching means and looped member comprising a flexible element secured at its ends to said looped member at spaced points, and slidably connected to said attaching means for holding said looped member unstably balanced.

3. Necktie holder comprising a tie-restraining member freely tiltable relative to a tie, means for attaching said tie-restraining member to a shirt, said tie-restraining member including a rigid bar adapted to lie against the front of a tie and having its end portions directed. shirtwardso as to be adapted to engage the edges of the tie in extreme positions of tilt, and connecting means between said attaching means and said tie-restraining member for holding said member member at spaced points; and'slidably connected to said attaching means for holding said tierestraining member unstably balanced.

5. Necktie holder comprising a tie-restraining member freely tiltable relative to a tie, means for attaching said tie-restraining member to a shirt, said tie-restraining member including a front bar adapted to lie against the front of a tie and having its end portions directed shirtward so as to be adapted to engage the edges of the tie in extreme positions of tilt, and connecting means between said attaching means and tie-restraining member comprisinga flexible suspending element secured at its ends to said shirtward directed portions whereby the preponderance of weight of said tie-restraining member is forward of the points of suspension of said member, causing said bar to lie gravitationally against said tie, said flexible element being slidably connected to said attaching means for holding said tie-restraining member unstably balanced.

HERMAN COHN. 

